Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward

About this book

Forests and trees are crucial for human wellbeing, sustainable development, and ultimately, life on Earth. The critical ecosystem services that forests provide are widely acknowledged, yet their provision is seriously threatened by continuing deforestation and forest degradation.

Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development utilizes a multidisciplinary perspective to analyze and discuss the various opportunities and challenges of restoring tree and forest cover. It examines forest restoration commitments, policies and programs, their implementation at different scales and contexts, and how forest restoration helps to mitigate environmental, societal, and cultural challenges. This book explores how restoration affects forest ecosystem services, contributes to biodiversity conservation, and generates benefits and synergies, while recognizing the considerable costs, tradeoffs, and variable feasibility of its implementation.

The chapters review forest restoration governance, practices, and technological advances, and reflect on the possibility of sustainable and just approaches to meet the challenges that lie ahead to achieve ambitious international forest restoration targets and commitments.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development / Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, and Georg Winkel
Chapter 2. Forest flickers of history. Early modern woodland restoration and how it shapes postmodern options / Wil de Jong, Takuya Takahashi, Georg Winkel, Agata Konczal, Nathaniel Anderson, and David Andrew Wardell
Chapter 3. Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics / Daniela Kleinschmit, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Mawa Karambiri, Markus Kröger, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, and Symphorien Ongolo
Chapter 4. Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration / Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Susan Chomba, Anne M. Larson, and Fergus Sinclair
Chapter 5. Regional variation in forest landscape restoration / César Sabogal, Jürgen Blaser, Kenichi Shono, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Rene Zamora Cristales, Almeida Sitoe, Tania Ammour, Adeline Dontenville, Mélanie Feurer, Jelena Markovic, Christophe Besacier, Silvio Simonit, Benjamin de Ridder, and Orjan Jonsson
Chapter 6. Forest restoration for climate change mitigation and adaptation / Daniel Kübler and Sven Günter
Chapter 7. Forest restoration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services / Rens Brouwer, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros, Pieter A. Zuidema, Pedro Brancalion, Madelon Lohbeck, Alejandra Hernández Guzmán, Alan Heinze, Joannès Guillemot, Koen Kramer, and Douglas Sheil
Chapter 8. Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities / Houria Djoudi, Ida N.S. Djenontin, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Chapter 9. An economic view on the costs and benefits of forest restoration / Pablo Pacheco, Craig Beatty, and Jwalin Patel
Chapter 10. Financial, ecological, political, and social feasibility of forest restoration targets / Rodney J. Keenan, Bas Louman, David Brand, Hemant Ojha, and Luo Xi
Chapter 11. Advances in forest restoration management and technology / John A. Stanturf, R. Kasten Dumroese, Stephen Elliott, Vladan Ivetic, Watit Khokthong, Michael Kleine, Mait Lang, Magnus Löf, Palle Madsen, Cindy Prescott, and Timothy Young
Chapter 12. Sustainable and fair forest and land restoration: Balancing goals, interests, and trade-offs / Wil de Jong, Pia Katila, Georg Winkel, Pablo Pacheco, Glenn Galloway, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer

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Biography

Dr Pia Katila is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). Dr Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Dr Wil de Jong is Professor at the Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Adjunct Professor at Renmin University of China, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, and Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. Dr Glenn Galloway is the Director of Master of Sustainable Development Practice program at the University of Florida. Dr Pablo Pacheco is the Global Forests Lead Scientist at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Dr Georg Winkel is Professor and Chair of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University.